Astronomers have discovered that the flattened clouds of gas and dust around stars — nurseries that give birth to planets — are generally smaller than previously thought. Some are so small, in fact, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how ...

IMAGE: Among thousands of known exoplanets, MIT astronomers have flagged three that are actually stars. Pictured is an artist’s interpretation of stars and planets. CREDIT: NASA A new study published ...

Astronomers are scratching their heads over a recently discovered planet. The planet, dubbed TOI-6894b, orbits a star 238 light-years from Earth. The planet is huge; the star is tiny, a red dwarf only ...

Science teaches us that stars are much larger than planets, but what about large planets that orbit small stars? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." Astronomers have discovered that the flattened clouds of gas and dust around ...